Mary Angelita Ruiz

Time to apply for the Junior Fellowship at First Things . As I wrote last year , here are Some of the Things You Might Do As a First Things Junior Fellow (Not All in One Week): Monday, 3 pm: First . . . . Continue Reading »28Jan2008

Here’s a conflicted piece in this morning’s Los Angeles Times transparently contemptuous of pro-life activism but respectful of the pain of men dealing with their complicity in . . . . Continue Reading »7Jan2008

Robert Southwell is perhaps the most famous of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a young sixteenth-century Jesuit who was hanged, drawn, and quartered for spending more than forty days on . . . . Continue Reading »18Jan2007

A Week in the Life of a First Things Junior Fellow (Somewhat Condensed and Idiosyncratic) Saturday, 7 pm: Night prayer, drinks, and dinner with Richard John NeuhausSunday, 1 pm: Lunch after Mass at . . . . Continue Reading »10Jan2007

"Manliness is next to godliness," ran the Los Angeles Times headline on December 7. The article examines "a contrarian movement gaining momentum on the fringes of Christianity" . . . . Continue Reading »12Dec2006

Last week I saw the final New York performance of a Twelfth Night now touring the United States, brought over by a British production company called Cheek by Jowl . This Twelfth Night is performed . . . . Continue Reading »21Nov2006

Assorted tech-savvy wags have created blogs for major literary figures ( G.K. Chesterton , for example), so it was inevitable that someone would create a blog for perhaps the most prolific diarist in . . . . Continue Reading »24Aug2006

For the past month, the New York Times has been running a series on “the new gender divide," which "examin[es] what has happened to men and women several decades after the . . . . Continue Reading »8Aug2006